Changes in CSIT |release|\r
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\r
-#. Test environment changes in VPP data plane performance tests:\r
-\r
- - Further characterization and optimizations of VPP vhost-user and VM test\r
- methodology and test environment;\r
-\r
- - Tests with varying Qemu virtio queue (a.k.a. vring) sizes:\r
- [vr256] default 256 descriptors, [vr1024] 1024 descriptors to\r
- optimize for packet throughput;\r
-\r
- - Tests with varying Linux :abbr:`CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler)`\r
- settings: [cfs] default settings, [cfsrr1] :abbr:`CFS (Completely Fair\r
- Scheduler)` RoundRobin(1) policy applied to all data plane threads\r
- handling test packet path including all VPP worker threads and all Qemu\r
- testpmd poll-mode threads;\r
-\r
- - Resulting test cases are all combinations with [vr256,vr1024] and\r
- [cfs,cfsrr1] settings;\r
-\r
- - For more detail see performance results observations section in\r
- this report;\r
-\r
-#. Code updates and optimizations in CSIT performance framework:\r
+#. Added VPP performance tests\r
\r
- - Complete CSIT framework code revision and optimizations as descried\r
- on CSIT wiki page `Design_Optimizations\r
- <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/Design_Optimizations>`_.\r
+ - **L2BD MAC scale tests**\r
\r
- - For more detail see the :ref:`CSIT Framework Design <csit-design>` section\r
- in this report;\r
+ - VPP L2 Bridge-Domain with MAC learning and large size L2FIB (10k,\r
+ 100k, 1M MACs), tested in NIC-to-NIC and VM vhost topologies.\r
\r
-#. Changes to CSIT driver for TRex Traffic Generator:\r
+ - **Linux Container VPP memif tests**\r
\r
- - Complete refactor of TRex CSIT driver;\r
+ - Tests with VPP in L2 Bridge-Domain configuration connecting over\r
+ memif virtual interfaces to VPPs running in LXCs;\r
\r
- - Introduction of packet traffic profiles to improve usability and\r
- manageability of traffic profiles for a growing number of test\r
- scenarios.\r
+ - **Docker Container VPP memif tests**\r
\r
- - Support for packet traffic profiles to test IPv4/IPv6 stateful and\r
- stateless DUT data plane features;\r
+ - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect configuration connecting over\r
+ memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker containers;\r
\r
-#. Added VPP performance tests\r
+ - **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests**\r
\r
- - **Linux Container VPP memif virtual interface tests**\r
-\r
- - New VPP Memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) tests\r
- with L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding;\r
+ - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect and Bridge-Domain configurations\r
+ connecting over memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker\r
+ containers, with service chain topologies orchestrated by Kubernetes;\r
\r
- **Stateful Security Groups**\r
\r
- - New m-thread m-core VPP stateful security-groups tests;\r
+ - m-thread m-core VPP stateful and stateless security-groups tests;\r
\r
- **MAC-IP binding**\r
\r
- - New MACIP iACL single-thread single-core and m-thread m-core tests;\r
+ - MACIP input access-lists, single-thread single-core and m-thread\r
+ m-core tests;\r
+\r
+#. Presentation and Analytics Layer\r
\r
- - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results;\r
+ - New Presentation and Analytics Layer (PAL) for automated CSIT test\r
+ results analysis and presentation, including statistical analysis\r
+ of results repeatibility and test report auto-generation;\r
\r
Performance Improvements\r
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calculated against the test results listed in CSIT |release-1| report. The\r
comparison is calculated between the mean values based on collected and\r
archived test results' samples for involved VPP releases. Standard deviation\r
-has been also listed for CSIT |release|. VPP-16.09 and VPP-17.01 numbers are\r
-provided for reference.\r
+has been also listed for CSIT |release|. Performance numbers since release\r
+VPP-16.09 are provided for reference.\r
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NDR Throughput\r
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| | of discovered NDR throughput values across | | throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs, x520 NICs are fine. |\r
| | multiple test runs with xl710 and x710 NICs. | | |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 4 | Lower than expected NDR and PDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and |\r
+| 4 | Lower than expected NDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and |\r
| | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | PDR throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
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